Ijaarah

Taking a commission for outsourcing work when working for a company

Q: I am currently working in a company as a senior executive. I was given a task by my management to find a guy who would fix a tube well (water well). I found a guy and called him to our office to confirm the project with my management. I requested this guy for a commission after the completion of the project. Is it permissible in Islam to take commission for this kind of outsourced work? 

Renting out a house to a Hindu

Q: We have given a portion of our house on rent as it is very big and very difficult to clean and maintain. Our tenant, who is a Hindu, does his prayers according to his beliefs. I want to know whether it is permissible or not as the building is the same but the portion on rent is totally separate.

Muslim civil engineer constructing buildings for armies fighting against Muslims

Q: I am working as a civil engineer. We deal with construction of buildings and other structures. Sometimes we have to work for the army of disbelievers (kuffar) who are presently fighting against Muslims. We have to construct buildings and other structures for them... Is it allowed for us to work for them although we have no intention to help them on their anti Islamic sentiment. Remember our land is under oppression.

Working on a search engine for Quraan translations

Q: What is the ruling for a software developer who receives a project in which he/she has to apply algorithms on a data set i.e. Qura'nic verses' translation. Lemmtatization,tokenization, stemming and bag of words techniques will be applied on translation in order to get the following result example:

First if one wants to search any masla from the Qur'an regarding a rukoo in namaz, the software will show the verses translation related to the rukoo in namaz only. Is it permissible for one to work on such project?

Presenting fake certificates when applying for a job

Q: I am working in a gulf country and I given some wrong certificates. I always doubt whether my job is haram or halal. I graduated applied to many companies but they did not choose me as I did not have experience. I gave a record of fake experience and some certificates and I did not show my actual graduation degree. I got a small level job. After getting the job, I informed the interviewer that I had given wrong certificates. Is my income haram or halal? 

Delivering haraam food for Uber eats

Q: I want to start working for Uber Eats as a delivery driver, but I am afraid that some of the orders may be for haraam food. One of my friends told me that I will be able to view the orders on my phone. In this way, I will be able to view all the items in the order and can then ensure that I only accept to deliver orders that are for halaal food. If this is true, can I take the job?

What should be done with extra money collected by the cashiers?

Q: I am working as an accountant in a private company. I deal with the bank and cash received from customers and also make payements for the company. Somtimes when I calculate cash at closing time, it goes in excess. Can I use this cash for my personal use or not? One point I want to clear is that I am working on software and I cannot put back in software.

Appling for a job that requires medical screening

Q: I would like to ask that in armed forces screening or any other such sort of job where they need to screen you thoroughly, there is a medical stage screening where they fully uncover the applicant and the senior doctor checks him for any ailments or shortcomings that might deem him unfit. The question arise that doing such sort of uncovering of full body to a medical doctor will be permissible in shariat or not. If it is not permissible then who is sinful. Both?